Aubrey Edwards
Volume 27, Number 27
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news
ELECTION 2008
Bitter race ends in landslide
BY LEE NICHOLS
Dawnna Dukes closes out a volatile contest
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
BY JORDAN SMITH
BY JORDAN SMITH
BY WELLS DUNBAR
City of Austin, AISD, and ACC poised for another round of elections
BY WELLS DUNBAR AND RICHARD WHITTAKER
APD officer loses first round of appeal challenging his firing
BY JORDAN SMITH
City off to promising start with Seaholm East Redevelopment District
BY KATHERINE GREGOR
Convicted drug felons slated for early release this week under new crack-cocaine guidelines
BY JORDAN SMITH
On this day, change happened from the bottom up
BY MICHAEL KING
Gentlemen's agreements, single-member districts, and more
BY WELLS DUNBAR
How to Get Young People Involved in Politics; and Monsanto Seeks to Ban the Truth
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
A guide to some of the best food-serving bars in town
Threadgill's new Old No. 1 almost done, keep Las Manitas on you food to-do list, and take advantage of Austin's Downtown wine bars
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
March 7-12
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Food Reviews
A great wine guide, good eats, Reed Clemons hits West Lake
music
The 2007-08 AMA's ghosts – past, present, and future
BY DOUG FREEMAN
Wednesday SXSW Picks & Sleepers
Handicapping the first night of SXSW 08
The countdown to South by Southwest continues, while the Black Angels turn on and Ghostland Observatory marches onward and upward
BY AUSTIN POWELL
SXSW Platters
Washarama, Moo
Believe the Thieves
Gamblin' House
12 Crass Songs
Falling Off the Lavender Bridge
The Kind of Goodnight
Pardon Me, Are Those Your Claws in My Back?
Martin Atkins
This Gift
Halloween: Live 1979-1981
In a Cave
Pray Like Crazy
Midnight Boom
Rivers Arms
The Inevitable Rise and Liberation of Niggy Tardust
Dan Dyer
It's a Shame About Ray Collector's Edition
screens
Previewing the 2008 Texas Film Hall of Fame
BY MELANIE HAUPT
SXSW FILM
Previewing SXSW Film 08
BY KIMBERLEY JONES
Mumblecore baby Greta Gerwig acts, writes, directs, enunciates properly
BY SPENCER PARSONS
After years of making shorts, the Zellner Brothers go big
BY JOSH ROSENBLATT
Music on the margins
BY JOSH ROSENBLATT
A death row chaplain has a change of heart in At the Death House Door
BY CLAY SMITH
Bob Byington lifts the lid on Registered Sex Offender
BY SHAWN BADGLEY
Crawford and the commander in chief
BY KIMBERLEY JONES
Celebrating digital TV
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Confronting, and confounding, the color line in The Order of Myths
BY MARC SAVLOV
Chasing the middle class dream in Intimidad
BY SHAWN BADGLEY
Austin transplant Alex Karpovsky blends fact and fiction in his funny, heady tracking of the elusive ivory-billed woodpecker
BY TODDY BURTON
The Toe Tactic's existential angst and animated canines
BY YVONNE GEORGINA PUIG
Celia Maysles looks her father's legacy head-on in Wild Blue Yonder
BY ANNE S. LEWIS
Elvis Mitchell discusses why there's no one African-American experience
BY MARJORIE BAUMGARTEN
It's a thin line between love and hate for San Francisco in Barry Jenkins' 'Medicine for Melancholy'
BY SOFIA RESNICK
Divorce pains framed against the backdrop of 'The New Year Parade'
BY RAYMOND BLANTON
Two frustrated actors write a script, make it geographically specific, enlist A-list talent, and make the damn thing themselves. Why does 'Humboldt County' sound familiar?
BY MARC SAVLOV
Austin Film: The SXSW CliffsNotes version
BY JOE O'CONNELL
It's curtains for the Web crossover quarterlife
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Film Reviews
A lost band of Egyptian musicians from a police orchestra find refuge with some Israeli townspeople.
When a gang of thieves break into some London safe-deposit boxes, they enter a world of police corruption, financial malfeasance, sexual degeneracy, political conspiracy, murder, torture, and upper-class salaciousness.
This new Bollywood film takes on the subject of terrorism.
Frances McDormand's Miss Pettigrew is an unemployed nanny who bluffs her way into a job as the "social secretary" for the brain-dead, proto-fashionista, Yank-on-holiday starlet Delysia Lafosse, played by Amy Adams.
The glories of extreme skiing are proclaimed from international mountaintops.
Enjoy the madness while it lasts.
In this acclaimed documentary, Ugandan schoolchildren, victims of the brutal 20-year civil war, compete in a national dance contest.
arts & culture
What will the arts in Austin look like in 10 years? CreateAustin has a good idea – in fact, it has 10.
BY ROBERT FAIRES
The troupe's thrilling Souls of Our Feet program is back, with more reconstructions of classic rhythm tap routines
BY ROBERT FAIRES
The long-awaited cultural facility throws wide its doors for four days of free performances and tours
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Core members from cult comedy troupe Upright Citizens Brigade raid Austin for the first time since 2000
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Arts Reviews
In that tenuous space where heartbreaking loneliness meets relentless hope lives this beautiful, strange Daniel Johnston rock opera
With David Stahl and Michael Stuart playing everyone in County Kerry, this Irish comedy is a delight from beginning to end
This solo show explodes with shapes that have big personalities and enough color combinations to make your eyes reverberate
columns
An approach to the SXSW Film Festival
BY LOUIS BLACK
The rumors of Stephen's debilitating automobile accident have been greatly exaggerated, but train wreck? That's another story altogether.
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
Texas coastal fishing piers provide the means to walk on water
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
The Ice Bats are making it work the way a sublimely half-assed Will Ferrell movie works
BY THOMAS HACKETT
The state (and world's toughest) dog of North Carolina is the Plott Hound, Indiana Jones' first name is Henry and more fun facts
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
Can my bicycle be towed?
BY LUKE ELLIS
Alamo Drafthouse South Lamar, Saturday, March 8, 2008
BY THE LUV DOC
Letters to the editor, published daily
sports
Austin Aztex U-23 tryouts, and more
BY NICK BARBARO